Alfred Geier says it’s not about the state of the state. The Republic is Plato’s most famous dialogue, contains many of his best-known arguments and is one of the great classics of world literature.

(al-Talbi, 1993: p. 356). Plato’s Republic also illustrates that the knowledge of god(s) and knowing their true attributes affect the manners of human beings and their image (gods) determines people’s ...

In this article I try to show, by analyzing selected passages and perspectives from the Republic, that Plato regards the role of military ethics as crucial in the construction of the ideal city, and ...